Post-WWII America
Winston Churchill used this phrase to describe the need to keep Soviet expansionist tendencies in check because of the belief that the Soviet Union was a hostile power following the conclusion of WWII.
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
This paramilitary group out of California adopted an anti-colonial approach to fight against racial inequality and superiority.
(Fun fact: Tupac Shakur's parents were members of this organization)
Who are the Black Panthers?
The name of the luxury apartment complex in which a political scandal was given the same name.
What is Watergate?
This type of music was widely believed to be responsible for the rise in teen suicide rates and satanism in the 1980s
What is rock and/or metal music?
This phrase categorized the struggles of the 1990s that included abortion, gun policies, separation of church and state, privacy, recreational drugs, censorship and homosexuality, and education.
What are the Culture Wars?
This sought to check Communist advance by restoring prosperity of the whole European continent through billions of dollars in US aid in the form of food, equipment, steel and coal.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This group had the basic aim of "achieving full citizenship rights, equality, and the integration of the Negro in all aspects of American life."
What is the SCLC?
The "smoking gun" of the Watergate tapes was a recorded conversation between President Nixon and this man.
Who is John Haldeman?
This President was the former Governor of California and a Hollywood Film star in the era of McCarthyism and whose wife was "accidentally" blacklisted.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This, according to scholar Tom Perchard, is responsible for 1990s rap music reaching audiences across racial boundaries.
What is the sampling of Jazz music?
The Premier of the USSR (Soviet Union) at the height of the Cold War
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This was a program implemented by President Lyndon B. Johnson and is considered the "most sweeping reform agenda since the New Deal a generation before."
What is the Great Society?
This speech by President Jimmy Carter called for a "new public spirit of sacrifice and a bold departure in national energy policy based on a new national goal of conservation?"
What is "Energy and the Crisis of Confidence?"
Ronald Reagan was known for doing this in his speeches to appeal to American's sense of historical pride and nostalgia
What are American myths, symbols, and rhetoric?
This declared that any countries involved in the organization or harboring of terrorists would be enemies of the US.
What is the Bush Docterine?
This is the breakthrough legal attack on Jim Crow laws, which resulted in public schools to become integrated
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
This person was strongly opposed to Johnson's Great Society programs, and gained an almost cult-like following in the Orange County suburbs during his presidential run in 1964.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
This is widely considered one of the largest things responsible for the decline of urban areas, the growing uneven distribution of wealth, and the growing drug crisis of the 1970s
What is deindustrialization and the rise of white suburbia?
This tax ratio was named after economist Arthur Laffer
What is the Laffer Curve?
President Bush did not want to address the nation following the attacks of September 11th from this place
A secured bunker.
He wanted to address American's from the Oval Office.
This, according to Kristin Matthews, is a symbol of American character, masculinity, individuality, and conformity beginning in the 1950s.
What is the barbeque?
This is the first right in NOW's Bill of Rights from 1967.
What is an Equal Rights Constitutional Amendment?
According to Heather Ann Thompson, this problem was occurring largely due to deindustrialization and was specifically targeting urban persons of color.
What is mass incarceration?
This group's political agenda was biblically inspired, and often viewed as distorted, as part of the New Right of the 1980s.
What is the Moral Majority?
The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, made this statement in order to secure the funds necessary to fight the "War on Terror"
What is "Transformation Takes Money"?